# 1816 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes (until 23 April)
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
* Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson (until 4 July) Herbert Marsh (from 25 August)
* Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
* Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

## Events

* 10 February - Pembroke Dock's first Royal Navy ships are launched: HMS Ariadne and HMS Valorous.
* 7 May - Hay Railway opens throughout.
* 24 July - Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow (rebuilt in cast iron), is opened across the River Wye.
* 9 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, takes a room at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea, and instructs the maid not to disturb her. The following day she is found dead, having taken a fatal dose of laudanum.
* Nantyglo Round Towers built.
* Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, opens a school at Merthyr Tydfil.

## Arts and literature
### New books
#### English language

* Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House
* Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774

#### Welsh language

* Jane Ellis - Cerddi (first published Welsh language book by a woman)
* Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist

### Music

* John Ellis - Mawl yr Arglwydd (collection of hymns)

## Births

* 11 January - Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
* 7 March - Huw Derfel Hughes, poet and historian (d. 1890)
* 3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)
* 11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
* 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff
* date unknown
** Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
** Edward Meredith Price, composer (d. 1898)

## Deaths

* 23 April - Thomas Johnes, landowner and politician, 67
* 18 June - Thomas Henry, apothecary, 81
* 29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher, 78
* 4 July - Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, 78
* 17 July - John Lewis, missionary, about 24 (fever)
* 10 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Shelley, 22 (committed suicide at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea)
* date unknown
** Benjamin Davies, first Baptist minister at Haverfordwest (age unknown)
** David Jones, barrister ("the Welsh Freeholder"), c.51